Paris at Night

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What interesting buildings!

Miniature Statue of Liberty.  I'm sure you remember that France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the USA.

The Dôme des Invalides was the church where royal mass took place during the reign of Louis XIV, then in the 19th century it became the location of the Tomb of Napoleon I.  During World War II it provided shelter for Allied pilots in the Second World War.

The Hôtel National des Invalides was constructed at the order of  Louis XIV to provide for the countries soldiers.  It first opened to veterans in 1674 as a hospice, barracks, convent, hospital and a factory.  Over 4,000 boarders could live within the site's walls.

 

This is one of two ancient Egyptian obelisks, over, over 3,000 years old, carved to stand either side of the portal of the Luxor Temple in the reign of Ramesses II. The right-hand stone, over 75' high, was moved in the 1830s to the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, while the left-hand obelisk remains in its location in Egypt.

 

An art exhibit that consists of hundreds of blue glass blocks runs up the stairs of La Petit Palais.

La Petit Palais is an art museum and this sculpture entitled Quatre Saisons by Louis Convers stands by the foot of the steps leading into the museum. 

American sculptor Jeff Koons created this new sculpture to friendship between France and the United States, and to the victims of recent terrorist attacks in the city and across the European country.  It was unveiled in 2019.

Not a good photo but this was a discotheque in a bus.

Glimpse of the Arc de Triomphe

Pont des Invalides

This stop on the Pont des Invalides or Invalides Bridge was the perfect place to watch the hourly light show at the Eiffel Tower.  

Too bad I didn't get my movie feature on my camera figured out before the show was over.  My sister took a video but the file was too large to post here.  Anyway, there are millions of lights on the Tower that twinkle for five minutes on the hour at night.  Beautiful!

The Arc de Triomphe is located on the right bank of the Seine at the ceneter of a dodecagonal configuration of twelve radiating avenues.  Talk about a roundabout from hell!

 It was commissioned in 1806, after the victory at Austerlitz by Emperor Napoleon at the peak of his fortunes.

Construction was halted during the Bourbon Restoration, so the monument was not completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836.

 The final cost was reported at about 10,000,000 francs (equivalent to an estimated $75 million in 2020.

Notre-dame de Paris.  At least the night hid some of the damage.  

We went down the ritzy shopping streets and past luxury hotels but this sight along the way is what I remember of them.  The guide said this agency had been around since she was a kid, or at least the sign had been there. 

And one final photo of the Eiffel Tower